Cleat for electric wiring.



No. 776,514. PATENTED DEC. 6, 1904.

E. 0. HUNT. GLEAT FOR ELECTRIC WIRING.-

APPLIGATION FILED JAN. 26, 1904.

no MODEL.

Jqq- N0.'776,514t. Patented December 6, 1904.

UNIT D STATES PATENT ()EErcE,

EMORY oLYDE HUNT, OF BELLE PLAINE, IOWA, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF TO R, OE BELLE PLAINE, 1ow

CLEAT FOR ELECTRIC WIRING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 776,514, dated December 6, 1904:.

Application filed January 26, 1904 Serial No. 190,706. (No model- T all whom i m y GOIwWYM tion showing the rear or innerend of the base- Be 1t knownthat I, EMORY CLYDE HUNT, a piece. c1t1zen of the United States, residing at Belle ln constructing a cleat in accordance with Plaine, in the county of Benton and State of my invention I employ a base A, which is 5 Iowa, have inventedanew and useful Oleat for made of suitable insulating material and of Electric Wiring, of which the following is a any desirable size and shape, and a cap-piece 55 specification. B, made also of insulating material and adapt- Thisinvention relates generally to insulatored to fit upon the base A. The outer end face cleats for securing electric conductor-wires of the base is constructed with a transverse to and is an improvement upon the insulatorrib Cadjacentone side, said rib beingrounded,

cleat described and claimed in my application as shown, and adapted to fit into the trans 0 filed November 8, 1902, Serial No. 130,601. verse groove D, produced in the opposing The object of the present improvement is face of the cap-piece B. A transverse groove to provide a cleat which can be secured by E is formed in the outer face of the base admeans of a screw passed longitudinally or jacent the side opposite and at an equaldisobliquely therethrough, as the circumstances tance from the bore as the rib C, and a simi- 5 of the case may require; and with these oblar groove F is formed in the opposing face jects in view the invention consists in conof the cap-piece parallel to the groove 1), said structing a cleat in two partsnamely, the grooves E and F being adapted to register base and cap piece, said base having a eenwhen the capislitted upon the base, the groove tral longitudinal bore and also an oblique wall D at the same time engaging the rib C, and 7 forming one side of the said bore, the bore a conductor-wire is intended to be held in the being wedge-shaped and forwardly tapering, bore formed by the registering grooves, as the contiguous faces of the base and cap beclearly shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

2 5 ing constructed to grip and hold a conductor- The outer end face of the base beyond or wire, said cap and base beingsecured together outside the rib C is beveled or cut away, as 75 and the entire cleat fastened to a suitable supshown at G, thereby providing an open space port by means of a screw passing through the H between the opposing end portions of the wedge-shaped bore of the cap in a line either base and the cap, which permits the cap to parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cleat have a limited movement upon the base, the

or in an oblique direction at an angle to the rib 0 serving as a fulcrum, this movement 80 said axis. permitting the accommodation of conductor- The invention consists also in certain dewires of various diameters. The base A has tails of construction hereinafter fully dea central longitudinal forwardly tapering 3 5 scribed, and pointed out in the claims. bore 1, which passes through the base from In the drawings formingapart of this speciend to end, this wedge-shaped bore 1 having 8 5 fication, Figure 1 is a perspective view showone wall parallel to the longitudinal axis of ing the practical application of my invention. the base A and the opposite wall at an angle Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing the cleat to the said axis, the walls diverging toward secured to a joist by means of a screw pass the rear or inner end of the base- The cap ing through the same at an angle to the lonhas a central opening L, provided with a 9 gitudinal axis of the base of the cleat. Fig. countersink L at the outer end, the inner 3 is a similar view showing the screw passing end of said opening alining with the front straight through the base, the cleat in this inend of the bore 1, thereby permitting the stance being employed to secure a wire larger screw M to be passed obliquely through the in cross-section than the wire shown in Fig. cleat, as shown in Fig. 2, or straight through, 2. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the as shown in Fig. 3. 1t frequently happens base-piece. Fig. 5is adetailperspective view that the cleat is fastened to the side of a joist of the cap of the cleat. Fig. 6 is an elevawhere the joists are not a suflicient distance apart to permit the screw being passed straight through the cleat on the line of its longitudinal axis, inasmuch as the operator does not have suflicient room between the joists in which to work with a screw-driver, and it becomes necessary to work the screwdriver at an angle to the face of the joist to which the cleat is to be secured, and in order to do this it is necessary to pass the screw obliquely through the cleat, and it is with a view to permitting the screw to pass either straight or obliquely through the cleat that l have devised the present improved form.

It will be further noted that as the rib G is the same distance from the bore 1 as the groove E either of the grooves D or F will h't over the rib C, so that no time need be lost in adjusting the cap-piece to bring a particular groove in alinement with the rib (1.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cleat comprising a base and cap-piece, the base having a wedge-shaped forwardlytapering bore passing therethrough, and the cap-piece having a central opening adapted to register with the smaller end of the bore of the base.

2. A cleat comprising a base and a cap-piece having registering grooves, the base having a transverse rib on its outer end face, and the cap-piece having a groove adapted to receive the said rib, the base having a wedge-shaped bore passing therethrough, the smaller end of the bore being at the outer end face of the base-piece, and the cap-piece having a central opening adapted to register with the opening in the outer end face of the base, as set forth.

3. A cleat comprising a base and a cap-piece having registering grooves, the base-piece having a central, longitudinal, wedge-shaped bore, having rearwardly-divergent walls and opening at its 5111211101 end through the outer end face of the base, the cap-piece having a central opening the inner end of which is adapted to register with the opening of the bore in the outer end face of the base-piece, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. A cleat comprising a base and a cap-piece, the base having a wedge-shaped longitudinal bore, the said bore having a wall parallel with the longitudinal axis of the base, and an opposite wall at an angle to the said axis, a transverse rib formed on the outer end face of the base on one side of the outer, smaller end of said bore, the base having a groove on the other side of said bore and the same distance from the bore as the rib, the cap-piece having a central opening adapted to aline with the outer end of the bore, and parallel grooves formed in the cap-piece either of which will engage the said rib when the other is in alinement with the groove of the basepiece.

EMORY CLYDE lil UNT. Witnesses:

J. W. VAN NICE, HARVEY SLACK. 

